Credit where credit’s due…
Cancún’s rapid recovey from Hurricane Wilma is being held up as a role model for other destinations to follow.
The Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organisation (WTO), Francesco Frangialli said yesterday: "…the speed and efficiency shown in the recuperation of Cancún should be used as a blueprint for other countries facing similar threats."
Monsieur Frangialli is now in Acapulco for the annual “Tianguis Turístico” jamboree.
I would have to agree with the WTO’s assessment. Are you listening Mr Bush?
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April 5th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
There is a big difference between Cancun, built of concrete, fairly new, and above see level,….and New Orleans, build of wood, infested with termites, very old, and below sea level.
April 7th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Scott - a cheap jibe at Bush, perhaps. But the federal government’s bungling initial response to Katrina is on the record, I think. The White House has admitted as much with the report that concluded inexperience and a lack of planning, discipline and leadership undermined the response to Hurricane Katrina.
I am certainly no apologist for the Mexican govt. Indeed, the impressive recovery on the Mexican Caribbean can be starkly compared with the beggarly sums being spent in impoverished Chiapas where whole communities were damaged or destroyed by flooding unleashed by Hurricane Stan.
April 10th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
Steve, Hope this doesn’t turn into a political thread… but one other difference between the 2 hurricanes is that the Mexican people know how to work, and they don’t think they have to be paid by their government to clean up their own place. I’ve seen it many times in Latin America, the whole community shares the load in getting things cleaned up as fast as possible because everybody benefits, and they know it’s a waste of time to whine.
In the US we think we have to have government agencies or workers do everything for us, and we blame our government for everything, even natural disasters. Take an example from the Mexican people, they don’t blame Fox for the hurricane, they get off their asses and work til it’s done!